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April 1, 2004

Kinja's terms of service boo-boo

— cribbed from Yahoo’s TOS #

Visualizing Wikipedia changes over time

via Anil Dash #

Nick Denton on Kinja launch

— here’s my public Kinja digest #

5.25" Disk Sleeve Archive

— too bad the images are so small via Things Magazine #
March 31, 2004

Kinja scheduled to launch tomorrow

— digests of subject-specific weblogs for new readers via Eyebeam #

4th Annual Chatterbox Challenge

— you can play with all the chatbot entries! #

Altavista switched to Yahoo's database

— the former king of all search engines is dead #

Recipe error could cause kitchen explosions

— sounds like Swedish Lemon Angels via John Walkenbach #

Google launching Gmail, free 1GB webmail?

— official temp page, and not an April Fool’s prank via Simon Willison #

Boston Globe on modchips

— not just for piracy, chips are used for homebrew games and apps via weblogs.variety.com #

Book deal for dragon hoax author

— created by a professional creature effects studio via raygirvan.co.uk #

Sound of Magic, tribute to Disney theme park music

— amazing site with tons of interesting MP3 downloads #

Letterman clip and the White House reaction

— very entertaining clips and response #

Ashcroft creates task force for copyright violations

— I’m hoping this is an early April Fool’s joke #

Toronto court rules music sharing legal under Canadian copyright law

— plus, the Canadian RIAA can’t subpoena ISPs for names #

Popular Mechanics cover gallery

— from 1902 to 2004 via Things Magazine #

Historical relationship of height to success

— a society’s height is a biological shorthand for well-being via Delicious #

Shirky on micro-social software tailored to small groups

— not all software should be built to scale via Sippey #
March 30, 2004

Technorati hits 2 million blogs

— I noticed it this morning, but was waiting from comments by Dave #

Newsmap, Google News visualization

— size and color indicates importance and freshness via David Ely #

Yahoo's Tim Koogle to replace Jon Abrams as Friendster CEO?

— he’s a Nazi you know via zephoria.org #

Peanut Butter Terror Time

— the Dept. of Homeland Security’s terror alert banana via Delicious #

Obsessive list of "stinking badges" references

— badges badges badges, mushroom mushroom via John Walkenbach #

Video: Zelda Dance Party

— Japanese rap, cosplay, dancing, and puppets! #
March 29, 2004

Frequency chart of "blog" and "weblog" in daily newspapers

— “blog” is much more commonplace than “weblog” now via corante.com #

Socialight, wireless social networks

— use your cell phone to gesture to people or annotate physical places via muxway.org #

Video: Zefrank rant on Friendster and social networks

— sarcastic and smooth via zephoria.org #

Aaron's technical description of iTunes Music Store and DRM

— with a link back to my original thread about their encryption via aaronsw.com #

Leaked Catwoman and Spiderman 2 trailers

— Catwoman looks laughably bad, I’m mirroring it locally #

Create your own iPod adventure games

— more like “choose your own adventure” stories than interactive fiction via Slashdot #

Heavy metal umlaut

via Delicious #

Gameboy Advance programming tutorial

— excellent crash course to creating a Pong clone via gbadev.org #

FunHi, camgirl-ish gift economy

— the motives driving the site are unusual #

Google Web Alerts

— get notified of new pages matching search terms via Philipp Lenssen #

Charlie Brown, existentialist

— The Great Pumpkin represents the absence of God via emptybottle.org #

Blogger gets a big icon on Google's new Options page

— here’s a list of all the new Google changes #
March 28, 2004

Songs about robots, MP3 mix tape

— the only mix tape with both tATu and Kompressor via Delicious #

After Celebrity, the bizarre world of Livejournal celebrity role-playing

— they even have their own set of rules #

Audioscrobbler adds support for Windows iTunes

 #

Extinct Disneyland Attractions DVDs

— these vintage Disneyland home movies are great, too via Delicious #

Flash: Warthog, alien car exposion game

— I can’t get past level 38 #

NYT on web vigilantes

— sums up last week’s trend #

Guardian UK on Citizen Kubrick

— amazing glimpse into Kubrick’s personal archives and library via Todd Dominey #
March 27, 2004

Nintendo confirms NES GBA reissues

— the $20 games are a rip-off, but I must have the NES-style GBA via Slashdot #

Far Cry's hostile copy protection

— installer won’t run if a virtual drive app is also installed #

Community recording Lessig's "Free Culture" as an audiobook

— sign up for a chapter via Larry Lessig #

Blogroll as a fractal

— I need to modify the Levitated source to make my own via ReadWriteWeb #
March 26, 2004

Reflections of a Texas prison cook

— he prepared the last meals for over 300 executions via idly.org #

Stay Free interviews Rick Prelinger

— of the Prelinger archives #

Screenshot leak of Gamecube Online?

— I guess I’ll found out at E3 in May #
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